Using the Red and Blue Balls of in an Urn

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If i'm talking to a marketer and saying, imagine that urn is, we don't know how many. balls are in it, and we just know we're ging to be able to pull ten balls out of it. That's what's happening when you are looking at the data for your web site. And there their population is really the future visitors to the website. It's not like you can say, while you've got this sample that was a specific ficd thing you sampled from, and now youre ging to make an inference about the larger population.

Our podcast junkie co-host heard the following statement on another podcast a while back when he was out for a jog: "I actually think the word 'uncertainty' is used in English in a very different way than the word 'uncertainty' is used in statistics." He almost ran into a tree (causation is unclear: he's not known for his gross motor skills, which may have been a confounder). Not only is that quote, essentially, the theme for this episode, but the person who said it, Dr. Rebecca Goldin from George Mason University, was our guest! And we are absolutely CERTAIN that it was every bit as enlightening a discussion as it was a fun one! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.